NEW DELHI: The government has received complaints of irregularities in use of funds allocated under the National Horticulture Mission (NHM) by some states, Parliament was informed today.

"...complaints alleging irregularities in use of NHM funds have been received against some states," Minister of State for Agriculture Tariq Anwar said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

However, no complaints regarding misuse of funds allocated under the NHM by officials involved in implementation of scheme have been received, he said.

Under the NHM scheme, funds are allocated annually to the State Horticulture Mission set up by respective state governments. Of the total annual allocation, the Centre's share is 85 per cent and state's share is 15 per cent.

State Horticulture Mission provides assistance to beneficiaries for setting up of activities as per their approved Annual Action Plan. The funds released under the scheme to the states are subject to annual audit as per the extant financial rules.

The minister said that Joint Inspection Teams comprising NHM, State Horticulture Mission and other authorities undertake field visits periodically to verify the status of work as per the approved action plan.

For 2012-13 fiscal, the Centre allocated Rs 1,360 crore to NHM to cover 372 districts, against Rs 975 crore in the previous year.